Gil
Gil was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,916 among boys’ names; 4,971 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,880 Americans named Gil and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 28 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gil by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Gil mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Gil is “a diminutive of the male given name Gilbert.”
/ɡɪl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Gil?
#4,916 among boys’ names, 2025
Gil fell from #3,461 in 2015 to #4,916 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 11.7 per million.
124 babies in 1957, the peak
Gil peaked in 1957, when 124 boys were given it, #685 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,916 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,013 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #3,652 | 18.1 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,602 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,191 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,314 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,931 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 29 | #3,733 | 16.0 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,333 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,467 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,461 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,401 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,100 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 37 | #3,072 | 19.5 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,327 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,923 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,286 | 17.1 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,484 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,735 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 67 | #1,995 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 42 | #2,629 | 21.0 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,109 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 47 | #2,286 | 23.8 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,437 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 40 | #2,442 | 20.6 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,146 | 23.9 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,416 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,817 | 28.8 |
| 1997 | 50 | #1,863 | 26.5 |
| 1996 | 67 | #1,500 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,815 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,053 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 49 | #1,746 | 25.0 |
| 1992 | 59 | #1,512 | 29.5 |
| 1991 | 52 | #1,615 | 25.7 |
| 1990 | 51 | #1,617 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,589 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 47 | #1,557 | 24.6 |
| 1987 | 52 | #1,407 | 27.9 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,739 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 44 | #1,511 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 67 | #1,101 | 37.1 |
| 1983 | 49 | #1,335 | 27.3 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,297 | 28.7 |
| 1981 | 50 | #1,314 | 27.9 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,167 | 34.2 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,473 | 23.8 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,262 | 31.1 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,260 | 30.4 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,156 | 35.1 |
| 1975 | 49 | #1,217 | 31.4 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,207 | 30.5 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,235 | 28.9 |
| 1972 | 54 | #1,114 | 33.3 |
| 1971 | 68 | #987 | 38.5 |
| 1970 | 55 | #1,106 | 29.6 |
| 1969 | 63 | #967 | 35.2 |
| 1968 | 48 | #1,074 | 27.6 |
| 1967 | 76 | #825 | 43.6 |
| 1966 | 71 | #864 | 39.8 |
| 1965 | 91 | #773 | 48.9 |
| 1964 | 107 | #744 | 53.7 |
| 1963 | 109 | #741 | 53.7 |
| 1962 | 115 | #717 | 55.6 |
| 1961 | 121 | #694 | 57.0 |
| 1960 | 99 | #767 | 46.4 |
| 1959 | 118 | #707 | 55.3 |
| 1958 | 115 | #698 | 54.2 |
| 1957 | 124 | #685 | 57.5 |
| 1956 | 94 | #757 | 44.4 |
| 1955 | 74 | #857 | 35.9 |
| 1954 | 100 | #722 | 49.0 |
| 1953 | 92 | #745 | 46.6 |
| 1952 | 78 | #796 | 40.1 |
| 1951 | 68 | #847 | 36.1 |
| 1950 | 52 | #961 | 29.0 |
| 1949 | 62 | #873 | 35.0 |
| 1948 | 55 | #935 | 31.3 |
| 1947 | 55 | #957 | 30.1 |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,101 | 24.6 |
| 1945 | 43 | #977 | 31.9 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,200 | 22.7 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,549 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,284 | 21.7 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,716 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 27 | #1,296 | 23.3 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,473 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,638 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,502 | 19.7 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,914 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 15 | #1,869 | 14.4 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,580 | 19.4 |
| 1933 | 14 | #1,945 | 14.1 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,202 | 6.7 |
| 1931 | 18 | #1,731 | 17.3 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,353 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,034 | 13.9 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,493 | 22.6 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,591 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,791 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,480 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,719 | 9.7 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,604 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,358 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,543 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,850 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,755 | 10.2 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,215 | 5.4 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,315 | 13.5 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,904 | 18.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gil a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gil has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gil: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gil, and how old are they?
3,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 4,971 Americans ever recorded as Gil. The median Gil alive today is 48 years old; half are between 28 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 8,600 people named Gil (322 women and girls, 8,278 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Gil rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 86 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,150 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 812 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 772 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 709 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 348 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Gil born?
The states with the most babies named Gil are California, New York and Texas, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 985 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 621 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 516 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 91 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 20 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Gil is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Gil is most over-represented in California: since 1914 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Gil with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,245 babies since 1880, Gil is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 20 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Gil
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Gil and names like it
- Compare Gil and GillBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGil peaked in 1957.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gil since 1910.
- The top names of 1957The year the most babies were named Gil.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gil alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.